Deborah Vance is coming back for more.

Max has renewed comedy series Hacks, starring Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder, for a fourth season.

The news comes hours after the finale of the third season – titled “Bulletproof” – dropped on the Warner Bros. Discovery streaming service.

Season three of the show, which comes from creators Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, and Jen Statsky, launched on May 2.

Smart’s Vance begins the season riding high off the success of her standup special while Einbinder’s Ava pursues new opportunities back in Los Angeles. However, they obviously pair up again and [Spoiler Alert], Vance may or may not have just scored a massive late-night win.

Season two of the show launched in May 2022 but a confluence of events delayed production on season three. Firstly, there was Smart’s health issues. She went in for a successful heart procedure in February 2023. Production resumed in May, nine weeks...

Jack Reynor has been cast in Season 2 of the Amazon Prime Video spy drama “Citadel,” Variety has learned exclusively.

Exact character and plot details for the second season of the big budget series are being kept under wraps. Reynor will appear alongside returning series leads Richard Madden and Priyanka-Chopra Jonas as well as Stanley Tucci. The new season will go into production later this year, with Joe Russo set to direct in addition to executive producing.

His role in “Citadel” marks a third Prime Video series role for Reynor, as he previously starred in the streamer’s adaptation of the...

“Fallout 76” has found a whole new world of players thanks to the popularity of Amazon’s “Fallout” TV series. The Bethesda Game Studios title, which first launched in October 2018, crossed 20 million downloads and plays as of Wednesday.

That is a jump from the 17 million players “Fallout 76” had totaled in December, ahead of the April 10 release of Jonathan Nolan’s “Fallout” TV adaptation on Prime Video.

“It’s kind of been sneaky popular for a while — but not to this level and it’s just been really great for the for the whole studio,” Bethesda director and executive producer Todd Howard,...

The upcoming second season of “The Night Manager” is adding three actors to its cast.

Variety has learned that Indira Varma, Paul Chahidi, and Hayley Squires have all joined the spy drama. They will appear alongside previously announced cast members Tom Hiddleston, who will reprise the role of Jonathan Pine from Season 1, as well as Diego Calva and Camila Morrone.

Exact character and plot details are being kept under wraps. Season 2 will premiere on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the UK, and outside of the UK globally on Prime Video.

Varma is repped by 42, Gersh, Principle Entertainment LA, and Schreck Rose.

The NCIS franchise continues to expand, and one of the upcoming shows is going to give fans exactly what they’ve wanted for years: more Tony (Michael Weatherly) and Ziva (Cote de Pablo)! De Pablo left NCIS in 11 before returning for the Season 16 finale and four episodes of Season 17. Weatherly exited at the end of Season 13 and was last seen at the end of the tribute to Ducky and the late David McCallum in the current 21st season. The new series was given a straight-to-series order on February 28. “We’ve been talking about this story for many years, and now with John McNamara at the helm, we are ready,” said Weatherly and de Pablo at the time. “The world of Tony and Ziva (and daughter Tali) promises to be an action-packed roller coaster fueled by love, danger, tears and laughter. We also want to acknowledge and thank the fans from...

When Calls the Heart star Mamie Laverock is “doing well” after falling five stories from a balcony walkway. Her parents have released an update on her condition. “Mamie is out of her extensive surgeries, and the doctors say she is doing well. It’s impossible for us to be happier. Thank you all for your support,” Laverock’s parents wrote on her GoFundMe page. The actress had previously been on life support. On May 26, the 19-year-old was “escorted out of a secure unit” of a hospital and “taken up to a balcony walkway from which she fell five stories.” She sustained “life-threatening injuries” and underwent “multiple extensive surgeries.” Laverock, who played Rosaleen Sullivan on the Hallmark Channel series, was in “intensive treatment” for two weeks following a “medical emergency.” On May 11, Laverock’s mother, Nicole Compton, went to Winnipeg, Canada, to be with her daughter. Laverock was hospitalized in Winnipeg...

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are likely to interrupt one another during CNN’s telecast of the first presidential debate in the run-up to the 2024 election. But they will also be cut off by something else.

CNN plans to run commercials during the event, according to two people familiar with the matter, which has run free of ads for many years under the management of the non-partisan Commission on Presidential Debates. The candidates have in this cycle opted to forego the Cpd’s traditional structure, which calls for a series of debates to be held closer to the November election.

We will update this article throughout the season, along with all our predictions, so make sure to keep checking IndieWire for the latest news from the 2024 Emmys race. The nomination round of voting takes place from June 13 to June 24, with the official Emmy nominations announced Wednesday, July 17. Afterwards, final voting commences on August 15 and ends the night of August 26. The 76th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards are set to take place on Sunday, September 15, and air live on ABC at 8:00 p.m. Et/ 5:00 p.m. Pt.

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While there has not exactly been a cutdown on documentary series in the way there has been for scripted series, it does seem like budgets have gone down. There is already talk online of people feeling tricked by the merger of HBO Max and Discovery+ that has led viewers to take projects like “Quiet On Set: The Dark Side Of Kids TV...

John Stamos isn’t mincing words on UnPrisoned.

The Fuller House and Big Shot star will recur during Season 2 of the Hulu series as Murphy, “a best-selling author and self-proclaimed ‘family radical healing coach,'” reads the official character description. “Murphy is a half-guru/half-reality star, cut to the chase type therapist who believes in telling people straight up what’s wrong with them.”

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Aubrey Plaza and Joe Wengert have set up the animated comedy series “Kevin” at Amazon’s Prime Video, Variety has learned.

Plaza and Wengert are co-writers and executive producers on the series, with Wengert also serving as showrunner. Dan Murphy will also executive produce. The series is produced by animation Titmouse, Plaza and Murphy’s Evil Hag Productions, and Amazon MGM Studios.

The official logline for the series states that it is about “a life-long housecat who decides that he doesn’t want to live with people anymore. Loosely inspired by a real break-up and the cat caught in the middle,...

I’ve always been a big fan of cozy small-town shows. I grew up on Gilmore Girls, watch Ginny & Georgia religiously, and never pass up a chance to return to the comfort of One Tree Hill. But somehow, I’ve never gotten around to bingeing Netflix’s Virgin River.

The romantic drama, which premiered in 2019, centers on Mel Monoe (Alexandra Breckenridge), a nurse practitioner and midwife who goes to work in the tiny, remote Northern California town of Virgin River in search of a fresh start — but like any charming small town, it comes with complications. The show is based on the book series of the same name by Robyn Carr, who also serves as an executive producer. In May 2023, it was renewed for a sixth season.

After months of on-again-off-again haggling, Skydance Media submitted a newly revised offer for Paramount Global. The revised bid would reduce the amount Skydance and its financial partners would pay Shari Redstone, Paramount’s controlling shareholder, and reallocate that more equitably to the company’s nonvoting Class B shareholders, Variety has confirmed. Skydance would also put in more cash upfront to swing the deal, sources said.

The special committee established by Paramount’s board is currently reviewing Skydance’s revised proposal, sources said. Reps for Skydance and Paramount Global declined to comment. Reps for Nai and the Paramount board’s special...

Amazon Prime Video‘s upcoming adaptation of E. Lockhart’s hit novel We Were Liars has finally found its core four. The studio has revealed the four young stars who’ll bring this tragic romance to life, along with other details about the forthcoming series. Here’s a look at what we know so far. When will We Were Liars premiere? Amazon has not yet announced a release date for We Were Liars, but in a cast announcement, the four stars of the film were pictured together, indicating production will begin soon. Who will star in We Were Liars? Leading the cast of We Were Liars is Emily Alyn Lind as Cadence, the character whose first-person narration drives the action of the novel. She is joined by Shubham Maheshwari as Gat, Esther McGregor as Mirren, and Joseph Zada as Johnny. The extended cast for the series, as initially reported by Deadline,...

Spoiler Alert: This interview contains spoilers for “Bulletproof,” the Season 3 finale of “Hacks.”

The hacks of “Hacks” are moving up in the world, but not without a cost.

After tireless work alongside Ava (Hannah Einbinder), Jimmy (Paul W. Downs) and Kayla (Megan Stalter), the penultimate episode of “Hacks” Season 3 saw Deborah finally land the late-night hosting gig she’d been dreaming of since having her first chance taken away decades ago. In the finale, titled “Bulletproof,” her celebration gets cut short as she starts to prepare for the onslaught of pressure to come.

It hasn’t been long since Deborah...

The first days back on set of “The Morning Show” after a season break are always a humbling experience, Greta Lee acknowledges.

“We constantly joke at the start of each season that we have to re-learn how to talk that fast,” Lee tells Variety. “I wish people could see how hysterical it is. It is like a bunch of elephants getting dropped onto a treadmill. It is such an athletic job, and it is immediately humbling because it is so challenging for every single person.”

Rediscovering the brisk cadence of the Apple TV+ drama isn’t the only hurdle. As...

Emily Alyn Lind, Shubham Maheshwari, Joseph Zada and Esther McGregor have joined the cast of Prime Video’s new drama series “We Were Liars,” based on the young adult novel of the same name by E. Lockhart.

They join previously announced cast members Mamie Gummer, Caitlin FitzGerald, Candice King, David Morse, and Asher Ali.

Lind joins the cast as Cadence, “the revered eldest granddaughter of a Kennedy-esque American dynasty, effortlessly clever and adventurous [with] a knack for dramatic storytelling,” per the official character description. Maheshwari will take on the role of Gat, a “thoughtful, ambitious and intelligent New York City kid...

Variety‘s Emmy studio returned this year, with many contenders stopping by the Los Angeles studio. From the men on the small screen, including Kelsey Grammer (“Frasier”), Josh Hartnett (“Black Mirror”), Ramon Rodriguez (“Will Trent”) and Tom Hiddleston (“Loki), to the powerful women dominating, like Karen Pittman (“The Morning Show”), Renée Elise Goldsberry (“Girls5eva”) and Brie Larson (“Lessons in Chemistry”), the studio was filled with contenders.

Each of these portraits first ran in our special Emmy issues, available now.

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Dan Goor is developing a new comedy series at Max, Variety has learned exclusively.

Currently titled “Dead Drop,” the official logline of the project states, “A typical American family goes on vacation to Europe and accidentally gets sucked into the high-stakes world of international espionage.”

Goor is writing the series and will serve as an executive producer under his Dr. Goor Productions banner. Matt Milkovich is a producer. Universal Television will serve as the studio.

Goor has a long-standing relationship with Universal TV. He and the studio previously collaborated on the popular single-camera ensemble cop comedy “Brooklyn Nine-Nine.” Goor co-created...

A new app wants to become the “Netflix of AI,” allowing users to watch one of its AI-generated animated series on-demand. Not yet moved? The Showrunner app then allows the viewers to use AI to create their own episodes of the show.

AI production company Fable Studios has today launched the app in its Alpha stage to the public. With it, they’re releasing the first two episodes of an animated series created with Showrunner’s AI tools, a tech-industry satire called “Exit Valley” that looks quite similar to the animation style seen on “South Park” or “Rick and Morty.”

The first episode, which you can watch here, imagines Gold Rush-era ancestors of Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, and the Winklevoss twins fighting to the death over the valuable element in a satirical take on the cutthroat battle over Facebook. Even their “South Park” is…not quite “South Park.” And...

The Bear‘s third season may be on everyone’s minds, but the series is making another TV milestone first as the Emmy-winning dramedy makes its linear debut on FX. The FX original has only previously been available to stream exclusively on Hulu, but fans will finally be able to tune in for a four-day marathon of Season 1 beginning Sunday, June 2 in anticipation of the upcoming third season debuting on streaming on Thursday, June 27. When Season 1 of The Bear premiered back in 2022, it may have been watched by millions on Hulu, but this new linear channel debut offers those without the streaming service the chance to see what all the well-deserved fuss is about. (Credit: Matt Dinerstein/FX) The eight-episode debut season will roll out in two-episode blocks starting at 10 pm Et/Pt on Sunday, June 2. The back-to-back presentations will fill the same hour-long slot through Wednesday, June 5, when the...

Jon Stewart’s newly announced podcast now has a launch date—and a teaser to hold fans over until then.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart will release its first episode Thursday, June 6. As one might guess from the name, episodes will drop weekly, every Thursday.

“We’re going to be talking about all the things that hopefully obsess you in the same way that they obsess me,” Stewart says in a just-released trailer for the show (see bottom of this post). “The election. Economics. Earnings calls… Ingredient-to-bread ratio on sandwiches.”

It appears the podcast will feature other voices beyond Stewart’s. “Also hear from producers and friends of the show who discuss the latest headlines, what’s on their minds, and more,” the show’s official description reads.

As LateNighter previously reported, The Weekly Show seems to be utilizing the podcast feed originally created for Stewart’s Apple TV+ program,...

Sara Ramírez won’t be back as Che Diaz on And Just Like That… next season, and series star Cynthia Nixon is opening up about why.

Nixon, who plays Miranda on Max’s Sex and the City continuation, tells our sister site Variety that Ramírez’s exit was a mutual decision between Ramírez and showrunner Michael Patrick King. Ramírez “created such an amazing character — such a controversial character, but such an amazing character,” Nixon says, but “I think they felt, and Michael Patrick felt, that that character had run its course. They came in and shook everything up, and then the arc was completed.

A producer on The Apprentice whose decades-long nondisclosure agreement recently expired claims that Donald Trump used a racial slur to refer to a player on the reality competition.

Bill Pruitt, a producer who was involved in the first two seasons of the NBC series, says that he was present at a conversation in which Apprentice host/future United States president Trump used the N-word to describe Season 1 runner-up Kwame Jackson.

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With breakout hits like “Big City Greens,” “The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder” and “Phineas and Ferb,” Disney Television Animation has been setting the gold standard in kids’ animation for

40 years.

Dtva was formed on the heels of challenging outcomes with features “The Fox and the Hound” and “The Black Cauldron.” Initially, Dtva was restricted from using established Disney legacy characters, but nevertheless had huge successes with new shows like “The Wiggles” and “Adventures of the Gummi Bears,” both of which became popular in syndication.

As time went on, Dtva was able to use its limited rights to create shows like “DuckTales” and “Tale Spin,...

The Hacks team is here to stay as Max orders Season 4 of the critically acclaimed comedy starring Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder. Announced timed to the Season 3 finale, Hacks‘ renewal is sure to leave fans relieved after a twist cliffhanger ending between Smart’s Deborah Vance and Einbinder’s Ava Daniels. Over the course of nine episodes, viewers tracked the latest chapter of Deborah and Ava’s professional and personal relationship as the standup pursued late-night television and the writer briefly explored new opportunities in Los Angeles before reteaming. In addition to Smart and Einbinder, Season 3 of the award-winning series helmed by showrunners Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, and Jen Statsky features an ensemble cast that includes Downs, Meg Stalter, Carl Clemons-Hopkins, Kaitlin Olson, Jane Adams, J. Smith-Cameron, Helen Hunt, Christina Hendricks, Christopher McDonald, Christopher Lloyd, Tony Goldwyn, Mark Indelicato, Rose Abdoo, and Lorenza Izzo. (Credit: Max) “We congratulate Hacks’ brilliant cast and crew,...

Michael Weatherly has signed with Verve for representation, Variety has learned exclusively. Weatherly continues to be repped by Anonymous Content and McKuin Frankel.

Weatherly is best known for his time on the long-running CBS procedural “NCIS.” Weatherly portrayed Special Agent Tony Dinozzo on the hit show for 13 seasons. He departed the show in 2016, but made a special guest appearance in the second episode of the recent 21st season.

Weatherly will reprise the role of Dinozzo in a new “NCIS” spinoff series currently in the works at Paramount+ in the first streaming exclusive series in franchise history. He will reunite with Cote de Pablo,...

“Hacks” will finally give us late-night with Deborah Vance.

The beloved Emmy-winning Max comedy series has been renewed for a fourth season. And following the events of the Season 3 finale, it seems that Jean Smart’s stand-up character Deborah Vance is just getting started…

Season 3 premiered to the show’s usual critical acclaim on May 2 and the season finale is now streaming on Max. The third season began with Deborah (Smart) riding high off the success of her standup special while her former writer Ava (Hannah Einbinder) pursued new opportunities back in Los Angeles.

The IndieWire review gave the third installment an A- rating, with critic Ben Travers writing, “After Season 3, it’s clear they’re going to chase their connection as far as it goes, consequences be damned. And we’re right there with them, hoping for the best.”

Sarah Aubrey, head of Max Original Programming, in a press...

The drama between frenemies Deborah Vance and Ava Daniels isn’t over just yet: The Max comedy starring Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder has been renewed for Season 4, TVLine has learned.

The streamer announced the news on the heels of the Season 3 finale’s release Thursday.

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“We congratulate Hacks’ brilliant cast and crew,...

Starz is gearing up for the premiere of its forthcoming limited series Three Women, which is based on Lisa Taddeo’s bestselling book of the same name. Below, we’re breaking down everything you need to know about the star-studded project, from the premiere date to storylines, characters, and more. When Will Three Women Premiere? Starz Three Women will make its linear debut on Starz at 10 pm Et/Pt on Friday, September 13. It will premiere a little earlier on the Starz app at midnight on September 13. New episodes will arrive each Friday in the proceeding weeks. Who Stars in Three Women? The series stars Shailene Woodley, Betty Gilpin, DeWanda Wise, Gabrielle Creevy, Blair Underwood, Jason Ralph, and John Patrick Amedori. What Is Three Women About? Starz The series follows three women on a collision course to radically overturn their lives. Gilpin plays Lina, a homemaker living in suburban Indiana who...

New York and Los Angeles usually corner the market when it comes to TV audience opportunities, but late-night fans in Wisconsin have a rare opportunity to catch a taping this summer.

The Daily Show is seeking audiences for their “Indecision 2024” broadcasts from the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee this July.

The full week of shows coincides with the dates of the RNC: Monday, July 15 through Thursday, July 18. It remains unclear if Monday-night host Jon Stewart will host any of the episodes.

As we’ve previously reported, The Daily Show is set to take “The Best F*cking News Team on Television” on the road twice this summer, with the show visiting Chicago for the Democratic National Convention in August. (Stephen Colbert will also take The Late Show to Chicago for the DNC.)

While Tds has made a tradition of visiting the conventions during election years, these tapings mark the show...

Netflix‘s universe of dating shows continues to expand. Love Is Blind is heading across the pond for Love Is Blind: UK, which will premiere later this summer. New seasons of reality dating juggernauts like Too Hot to Handle and Perfect Match are also headed to the streamer in 2024. From tentative premiere dates to the latest renewals, scroll down to get updates about all the Netflix dating shows coming out in 2024. Love Is Blind: UK (New) Premiere Date: August 2024 British singles who want to be loved for who they are have signed up for a less conventional approach to modern dating and will choose someone to marry without ever meeting them. Over several weeks, the newly engaged couples will move in together, plan their wedding, and find out if their physical connection matches a strong emotional bond developed in the pods. When their wedding day arrives, will real-world realities and external factors push them apart,...

Just days after the death of General Hospital actor Johnny Wactor, his co-worker has shared firsthand details of the “horrifying” incident that led to his passing.

In a lengthy Instagram post on Wednesday, Anita Joy — who bartended with Wactor at the Los Angeles restaurant Level 8 — shared that “I have a responsibility to Johnny” to explain what happened on the night he died, and thus recounted her memories of May 25.

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Jessica Shaw, Henry Goldblatt, and Tudum.com writer Drew Tewskbury are taking you back to 1980s New York City to preview the new limited series Eric which features an all-star cast including Benedict Cumberbatch, Gabby Hoffman, and McKinley Belcher III. Drew shares details from his interviews with the cast and creatives to take you behind the scenes of the exciting new series.

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This week, Krista brings back her 2020 interview with comedian, actress, writer, and producer Michelle Buteau. At the time of this conversation, Buteau had just released her comedy special, Welcome to Buteaupia, and was on a non-stop run of projects -- hosting The Circle, appearing in films like Always Be My Maybe, and in TV shows like First Wives Club and Tales of the City. She was also just a few months away from publishing her autobiographical book of essays, Survival of the Thickest.

Cut to 2024, and Buteau has turned that book into a hit Netflix series by the same name. She's also expanded her hosting resume, adding two seasons...

“One Day” star Ambika Mod was 19 years old when she decided she wanted to be a comedian. She had discovered stand-up and improv comedy while at university, but never told her parents, who emigrated to the U.K. from India, about her plans.

“They’d be like, ‘No, no, that’s not stable and you’ll be poor,’” Mod, now 28, says on this week’s “Just for Variety” podcast. “I had to show them via actions, not words.”

She first began performing at the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe Festival while still a student. Several appearances in short films followed before she landed...

Netflix has greenlit a new adult animated series titled “The Undervale.”

The show hails from creator and showrunner Matt Roller. The official logline states, “A single mother of two struggles to run a haunted hotel with the help of her estranged brother, who is now one of the ghosts and thinks the other ghosts have some pretty good ideas.”

Along with Roller, Chris McKenna also executive produces along with Dan Harmon and Steve Levy. Erica Hayes is the supervising director.

“I’m thrilled to be working with Netflix and an amazingly talented cast and crew to bring to life the stories of the dead,...

A former producer on The Apprentice is speaking out about what he saw of then-host Donald Trump on the set of the show, after his 20-year non-disclosure agreement finally reached its expiration. In a lengthy essay for Slate, Bill Pruitt makes several explosive revelations about what went on behind the briefcases and boardroom tables. Among the most shocking claims in the story is that Trump once used the “N-word” to describe Season 1 contestant Kwame Jackson while deliberating about who should win. According to Pruitt’s piece, former show judge Carolyn Kepcher suggested that Jackson would be “a great addition to the organization,” after he managed to overcome several obstacles while managing Trump’s now-defunct casino Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City. After discussing Jackson’s decision-making for a few more lines, Trump then allegedly said, “Yeah, but, I mean, would America buy a [n-word] winning?” Pruitt said the reaction in the room was palpable,...

Shailene Woodley is setting out to capture the power of women.

The “Big Little Lies” alum returns to novel-adaptation ensemble TV with “Three Women,” based on Lisa Taddeo’s bestselling book of the same name. Woodley plays Gia, a writer who is grieving the death of her family and sets out to interview three “ordinary” women to tell her their stories of love, life, and loss.

Those trio of women include Betty Gilpin, who plays a stuffy housewife who begins an affair, DeWanda Wise as a woman in an open marriage that quickly becomes a quadruple (one more than a thruple), and Gabrielle Creevy who stars as a student that gets entangled with her married English teacher.

The synopsis reads: Three women are on a crash course to radically overturn their lives. Lina (Gilpin), a homemaker in suburban Indiana, is a decade into a passionless marriage when she embarks on...

While Netflix’s true-crime catalog continues to grow, its 2024 titles have been a mixed bag so far. There’s been some gems like An American Nightmare, which cleverly subverts viewer expectations and goes against the grain by actually holding law enforcement accountable. Others, like What Jennifer Did (which has drawn controversy for its alleged use of AI-manipulated imagery), merely rehash the facts of clear-cut cases and ultimately fail to bring anything revelatory to the table.

U.S. actor and producer David Boreanaz, star of hit series “Bones,” “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Angel” and “Seal Team,” will serve as president of the fiction jury for the Golden Nymph Awards at the 63rd Monte-Carlo Television Festival, which takes place June 14-18.

He will be joined by fiction jury members Piv Bernth, CEO, executive and creative producer of Apple Tree Productions in Denmark; Teresa Fernandez Valdes, producer and CEO of Te Espero en Marte in Spain; Claire Mundell, producer, creative director and founder of Synchronicity Films in the U.K.; Danish actor Ulrich Thomsen and Noor Sadar, producer...

Early on in Jim Henson: Idea Man, director Ron Howard‘s admiring and affecting biographical portrait of the genius behind the Muppets, Henson‘s longtime collaborator Frank Oz recalls, “He was so internal and quiet that his inner life must have been sparkling.” I can attest to that. One of my fondest memories is an interview I conducted with Henson in his company’s fabulous New York townhouse (dubbed the “Muppet Mansion”), including a visit to the Muppet Workshop, in advance of 1987’s A Muppet Family Christmas, a terrific special that featured lovable characters from The Muppet Show, Sesame Street and Fraggle Rock (among others) all gathering at Fozzie Bear’s mother’s house for the holidays. We had only been talking a few minutes when I realized my tape recorder had barely inched forward. Turns out it was set on voice activation, and it had only picked up my questions,...

Book your reservations early for The Undervale, especially if you prefer accommodations with plenty of character and charm.

Netflix has greenlit the adult animated comedy series created by Matt Roller about a single mother of two who struggles to run a hotel that happens to be haunted. Luckily, she has some help from her estranged brother … who is now one of the ghosts and thinks his fellow phantoms have some pretty good ideas.

Roller sold the series to Netflix in a highly competitive auction and landed a straight-to-series order. He recently served as a co-executive producer on Dan Harmon’s Krapopolis, Tina Fey and Robert Carlock’s Mr. Mayor, and two seasons of The Goldbergs. Previously, he wrote for Speechless, Community, Son of Zorn, Rick and Morty, and FX’s Archer.

Roller will serve as showrunner — i.e., head concierge — of The Undervale, and he will also...

Mark Johnson has produced some of the most distinctive movies and TV shows of the past 40 years. Think “Good Morning, Vietnam,” “Rain Man,” “The Notebook,” “The Holdovers,” “Breaking Bad” and “Better Call Saul.”

Yet Johnson was a surprise choice by AMC Networks to lead its massive investment in building out the Anne Rice literary universe in multiple TV series. AMC bought the TV rights to Rice’s literary vault of Southern Gothic vampire tales in 2020.

Four years later, AMC has two successful Rice-based series on the air — “Interview With the Vampire” and “Mayfair Witches” — and a third hot prospect in development: “Talamasca,...

Note: LateNighter generally posts late night daily ratings on a two (business) day delay, which is how they are released by Nielsen. Holidays are an exception, when there is an additional one (business) day delay.

With TV viewing mostly down across all genres on Memorial Day, late-night kicked off a mostly dark week Monday with each of shows airing repeats. Still, someone still had to win the late night ratings race. On Memorial Day 2024, it was ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! that emerged the victor.

ABC’s 11:35 p.m. late-night offering rebroadcast its April 24, 2024 episode on Memorial Day, and per Nielsen live-plus-same-day data, the telecast averaged 1,175,000 total viewers with 157,000 P18-49. That’s -26% and -5%, respectively, from the previous Monday’s episode (a new one).

CBS televised a rebroadcast of The Late Show’s May 9, 2024 episode at 11:35 p.m.

Continue reading Late Night Ratings: Monday, May 27, 2024 at LateNighter.

On June 6, the 2024 IndieWire Honors ceremony will celebrate 13 creators and stars responsible for some of the most stellar work of the TV season. Curated and selected by IndieWire’s editorial team, the event is a new edition of previous IndieWire Honors ceremonies, this time focused entirely on television. We’re showcasing their work with new interviews leading up to the Los Angeles celebration.

“Expats,” the immense yet intimate six-part series from director and showrunner Lulu Wang, tells the story of three American women living in Hong Kong who become inextricably linked by tragedy. That loss, so harrowing it’s often kept vague in plot synopses, is the disappearance of a young boy. Left unattended in a crowded night market for a split second, Gus (Connor James) is just gone. There’s no indication if he’s been taken or he merely wandered off. His mother, Margaret (Nicole Kidman), is inconsolable.

Ahead of its broadcast premiere on France’s TF1, “Cat’s Eyes,” the anticipated live-action show set in Paris and based on the cult manga series, has been sold by Newen Connect to a flurry of European broadcasters.

The eight-part action-packed show was picked up by Germany’s Zdf and Italy’s Rai, among others. The show was previously sold to Belgium (Rtl) and Switzerland (Rts). It was co-financed by Amazon which bought a second window for France, while the first window was picked up for Latin America and Japan.

Directed by Alexandre Laurent (“Women at War”), “Cat’s Eyes” is a heist series starring Camille Lou,...

Editor’s note: This story contains light spoilers for the Season 3 finale of “Hacks.”

When we first meet the legend Helen Hunt as Winnie Landell in Season 3 of Max’s critically acclaimed comedy “Hacks,” she’s looking for the spicy tuna guy.

Ava (Hannah Einbinder) and Jimmy (Paul W. Downs) have a chance encounter with Winnie, the head of the network that Ava is currently working for, where they also find out that she slept with Jimmy’s dad while he was married, maybe. It’s a hell of an introduction for Hunt, who is best known for her work on “Mad About You,” as well as films like “Twister,” “Cast Away,” and “As Good As It Gets,” for which she won the Best Actress Oscar in 1997.

While we only get Hunt in a few episodes this season, her role as Winnie looms large. As head of the network, she...

Hollywood has got more demand for knowledge-intensive, “white collar” occupations than it did just 10 years ago amid a drop in the number of manual, “blue collar” jobs in the entertainment industry in Los Angeles, according to a new study released Thursday

Per the Otis College Report on the Creative Economy, “‘Die Another Day’ – Hollywood Transformed in the Streaming Era,” “white collar” knowledge workers are defined as those “primarily paid for generating ideas, performing analyses or creating artistic content,” while “blue collar” manual workers have occupations across the entertainment industry in areas including transportation, cleaning and grounds keeping, and construction.

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Netflix is investing heavily in its well-watched reality programming, renewing two unscripted series and ordering three new projects.

The reality dating series The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On and its spinoff The Ultimatum: Queer Love have been picked up for Season 3 and Season 2, respectively. A return date for Queer Love has not been announced, but Marry or Move On will be back for its third season in December.

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[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for Evil Season 4 Episode 2 “How to Train a Dog.”] Let’s just say that we have a feeling Sheryl (Christine Lahti) wants to take Leland (Michael Emerson) down even more than ever before after the latest Evil episode. Sheryl tries to gain some footing at work, but it’s run by a misogynistic board of men and demons, so that’s easier said than done. When she speaks up in a meeting, offering up her connection as Kristen’s (Katja Herbers) mother—the biological mother of the Antichrist— Leland shuts her down; the board doesn’t like hearing from women because they consider them to be weak. He suggests she prove herself by getting Greg Bruni (Danny Mastrogiorgio) in line, with the demon inside him starting to peep through. She does just that by cutting his finger off. She delivers it to the Manager, but even that’s not enough to get a promotion.